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Farage’s profligate plans for health
Ukip leader craves bureaucratic insurance-based private rip-off

Britain would end up squandering billions on a new health service bureaucracy if Ukip leader Nigel Farage gets his way, experts warned yesterday.

They hit out after the ex-City banker turned party chief confirmed that he wanted to scrap government funding and usher in an insurance-based system.

So far his proposals have been kept on a back-burner, he told the BBC.

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